{"id":12325,"date":"2020-01-17T12:38:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T17:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altwire.net\/?p=12325"},"modified":"2022-05-20T09:40:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T13:40:22","slug":"alex-henry-foster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/de\/alex-henry-foster\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Henry Foster ver\u00f6ffentlicht \u201eSummertime Departures\u201c (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWindows in the Sky\u201d is the first solo album from Alex Henry Foster<\/a>, lead singer and songwriter for the Juno Awards nominee post-rock band Your Favorite Enemies<\/a>.<\/h4>\n

Written between Tangier and Montreal, \u201cWindows in the Sky\u201d has been crafted in a fragile state of emotional isolation following the passing of his father, a devoted believer to whom he was estranged, after a long battle with cancer. Alex Henry Foster explores the nature of faithlessness, sorrow, and solitude while trying to find hopeful directions within the disorientation and the confusion brought about by grief.<\/p>\n

In the likes of Radiohead, Swans, Mogwai, and Nick Cave, AHF\u2019s delicate and stormy musical journey embodies a singular mix of art rock, shoegaze, noise, psych, and krautrock, and is defined by a blend of intimate voicing and introspective spoken poetry.<\/p>\n

It is an 8-track cinematic voyage that incarnates a distorted voice trying to make sense of its fading echoes, exuding the last pieces of its self-preservative make-believes, trying to hold onto the deceptive views of every shadowing ghosts reflection it is fighting to keep alive, in order to suppress the painful image of the person it might have become, freed from the distorted narrative it was bound to in order to avoid suffering any longer.<\/p>\n

Alex Henry Foster describes his first solo project as a contemplative and reflective landscape where purposelessness, vulnerability, and disarray press for an honest examination of the true character of your personal spirituality, the distress of your life\u2019s failures, and the everlasting sense of regret that keeps on blooming as you try to survive the implacable bewilderment of loss and the mourning reality of your own impermanent existence.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor years, I\u2019ve been looking for deep personal emotions to be channeled within the safe and elusive context of a band\u2019s dynamic, so I wouldn\u2019t have to be exposed through their real colors, wouldn\u2019t have to assume any intimate implication. I simply hid behind the thick curtain of distant screams and uprising noises. It\u2019s only when my father passed and that I slowly started to work on the songs that would ultimately define the spirit of \u201cWindows in the Sky”.<\/p>\n

I had to admit that unless I would be willing to tear that bleak veil of fears down, I wouldn\u2019t be able to let any of those vivid emotions be, wouldn\u2019t be able to free them from my exultant struggle to stand into the light\u2026 and therefore to have my depressive soul emancipated through the honest embracement of those hidden emotions\u2026 one glimmer at the time\u2026 which is exactly how the album would finally come to life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Entirely recorded in early 2018 at the Upper Room Studio – Your Favorite Enemies\u2019 Catholic church turned professional recording studio facility – Foster invited his bandmates to contribute to the final stage of a few songs\u2019 musical arrangements as he concluded the album\u2019s self-production.<\/p>\n

\u201cWindows in the Sky\u201d was made available in Canada on November 9, through Hopeful Tragedy Records \/ Sony Music Entertainment \/ The Orchard.<\/p>\n

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